1 hour ago Mum catches out DNA lab worker who tried to help her child's father get out of £94k in maintenance payments

Lab worker Robert Patel provided a saliva sample, forged a doctor's signature and used an official stamp after being asked to skew the test results.

Economics

2 h. ago Trump officials to send home 2,000 National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles after immigration raids

Half the number deployed last month remain in the area

Politics

2 h. ago Chaucerian mystery is SOLVED after 800 years: Scientists decode lost English legend to find it was a romance, not a monster

Cambridge University experts say the discovery finally solves the most famous mystery in Geoffrey Chaucer's writings.

Politics

4 h. ago NHS physician associates should not diagnose untriaged patients, review finds

Government review says PAs sometimes used to fill roles designed for doctors, potentially exposing patients to riskNHS physician associates should be banned from diagnosing patients who have not already been seen by a doctor, a government review has concluded.The review calls for the government to overhaul the role of physician associates (PAs), who it says have been substituted in for doctors to fill staffing gaps despite having significantly less training. Continue reading...

Science

5 h. ago Harrison Ford fans in disbelief over him landing his first Emmy Award nomination at 83

The Indiana Jones and Blade Runner alum is up for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series as the grieving therapist suffering from Parkinson's disease in Apple TV+ show Shrinking

Events

6 h. ago MoD official responsible for catastrophic Afghan data breach that cost billions still works for government

Email blunder potentially put up to 100,000 people at risk and triggered the evacuation of thousands of Afghans who were brought to the UK under a secret resettlement scheme

Politics

7 h. ago Texas death toll reaches 134 as new flash flood watch issued

Authorities admit ‘we don’t know how many we lost’ as local officials receive death threatsAt least 134 people have now been confirmed to have died during the Texas Hill Country flooding on 4 July, according to an ABC News report.Crews are continuing to search for the 101 people still missing. Continue reading...

Events

8 h. ago Heavy rain kills two in New Jersey as subway and roads flooded in New York

Flash flood warnings were issued for parts of New York and Pennsylvania and an emergency was declared in New JerseyAt least two people were killed Monday evening in New Jersey amid heavy rain and flooding in that state and New York, according to authorities.The pair died in the city of Plainfield when the car they were in was swept into Cedar Brook during flash flooding, local officials announced on Facebook. Continue reading...

Events

9 h. ago System over Florida has potential to develop into tropical depression, weather service says

A weather system moving across Florida wasn’t even a tropical something but it has the potential to develop into a tropical depression as it moves across the Gulf later in the week

Politics

9 h. ago I wear SPF50 every single day, and these are my top picks: From gels to mineral sunscreens

“Think of sunscreen as a daily skin health insurance policy”

Politics

9 h. ago UN says 14 million children did not receive a single vaccine last year

U.N. health officials reported that more than 14 million children did not receive a single vaccine last year

Politics

9 h. ago Fiona Phillips' husband advises against saying one thing to Alzheimer's patients

Fiona Phillips' husband Martin Frizell has been his wife's full-time carer since her Alzheimer's diagnosis.

Science

10 h. ago Harry Potter fans ‘approve’ as first picture emerges of Nick Frost as Hagrid in new HBO series

Filming is officially underway for the new HBO Harry Potter TV series

Culture

10 h. ago Terrorists will use AI to plan attacks in seven ways including 'chatbot radicalisation'

An official annual report on terrorism has warned extremists could use AI to plan attacks, promote propaganda and evade online detection among other concerning things

Events

10 h. ago Swansea City officially launch new kit after Snoop Dogg reveal

The Swans have officially launched their new home kit for next season

Politics

10 h. ago Caroline Hirons: Any products you use to combat hyperpigmentation are a waste of time if you don’t use SPF

As Skin Rocks reveals its latest innovation, Caroline Hirons shares her top five tips for limiting hyperpigmentation

Politics

10 h. ago I spent a year in Antarctica. Here’s what I learned living through nine months of darkness and

Every year, a few thousand people deploy to live on Antarctic research stations — and go through punishing survival training regimes to do so. Holly Baxter speaks to two former Antarctica residents about what it’s like to spend months isolated in the most remote region on earth

Politics

11 h. ago Man arrested as creepy teddy bear feared to be wrapped in human skin horrifies locals

The chillingly-realistic toy was left outside a petrol station in San Bernardino County, California - leading to multiple reports to the local police from concerned members of the public

Events

11 h. ago Erotic mosaic stolen by Nazi captain in second world war returned to Pompeii

Wehrmacht officer gave relic to German citizen whose family contacted Italian heritage officials after his deathAn erotic mosaic panel stolen from Pompeii by a German Nazi captain during the second world war has been returned to the site of the ancient Roman ruins.The relic, which depicts a pair of lovers and dates from between the middle of the last century BC and the first century AD, had been among the heirlooms of a deceased German citizen who received the mosaic as a gift from a Wehrmacht captain responsible for the German military supply chain in Italy during the war. Continue reading...

Events

11 h. ago Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 93 Palestinians, including several families, health officials say

Gaza health officials say Israeli strikes overnight and into Tuesday killed more than 90 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including several families

Events